History

There’s a stupid fucking idea going around that goes like this: Everything was swell and peaceful in the Middle East until those nasty Christian Crusaders rode in and started hacking the sweet lovable locals to pieces. That’s wrong. Borderline retarded. Why? First of all, history did not magically start with the Crusades, and people before

German General Reinhard Gehlen went into hiding as WWII came to an end. As the chief of German Intelligence during Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, he was a most wanted man. The Soviets wanted him dead....

In the current comic book news, there are three main “bad guys”: Russia, Iran, and China. Oh you’ll hear all kinds of stories about Putin being a tyrant, Iran threatening Israel, and China being a currency manipulator,...

As Canada went to war in 1914, unwanted foreigners were turned overnight into enemies. There had always been doubts about immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in particular the Ukrainians who had settled much of the West. The...

The day after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt stood before congress to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. He got it. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, said, “We have only one job to do now, and that...

Former Navy Seal, Rob O’Neill’s claim to have shot Osama Bin Laden, and the Pentagon’s official denial, are just one more episode in the Bin Laden fraud. There is no evidence to support O’Neill’s claim, nor is...

At the start of the First World War, the big idea guys said that regular people would not march off to fight and kill their neighbors. Instead, they would rise up to overthrow their rulers, and then...

When Ruppelt rejoined the Air Force he was sent to ATIC to analyze the performance of the Russian MiG-15 jet fighter that American pilots were facing in Korea. UFO reports were still arriving at the moribund Project...

On the night of July 17, 1957, a UFO stalked a US Air Force RB-47 electronic reconnaissance plane for one and a half hours over an 800-mile course from the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Oklahoma. The RB-47...

Over 100 years ago the Galveston Daily News interviewed Nicola Tesla not for his views on science, but on the then burgeoning women’s liberation movement. Widely considered one of the greatest inventors and intellects who ever lived....

A little more than 100 years ago, my ancestors left Ukraine for the New World. They were peasants. They belonged to the land, and that land changed owners regularly: sometimes Russian, sometimes Austrian, and sometimes Polish. Regardless...